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The CEO and the Monk: One Company's Journey to Profit and Purpose (Hardcover)
by Robert B. Catell, Kenny Moore, Glenn Rifkin
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CEO thinking, Corporate governance, Leadership, Management |
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This thought-provoking book will inspire you and give you hope that organizations can both do the right thing and do well. |
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Author: Robert B. Catell, Kenny Moore, Glenn Rifkin
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. in: January, 2004
ISBN: 0471450111
Pages: 256
Measurements: 9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01504
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0471450115
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Rarely does a book deliver on the promise of an enticing title - but The CEO and the Monk does just that. Refreshing indeed is this surprising glimpse at a CEO who dared to seek new and unorthodox ways to engage and energize his workforce. That his partner in this extraordinary, often humorous journey, is a former monk and company employee - not highly-paid cadres of consultants, is even more remarkable. This unpretentious CEO and courageous monk could well provide the right role models for today's ethically-challenged corporate America.
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Target readers:
Executives, managers, HR professionals, management consultants, academics and MBAs.
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Robert B. CATELL is the CEO of KeySpan, one of the nation’s largest energy providers. He is one of the most highly respected business leaders in New York.
KENNY MOORE is a former monk who left the religious life for a successful career in human resources. He is currently Corporate Ombudsman at KeySpan.
GLENN RIFKIN is a veteran business journalist who has written extensively for the New York Times and coauthored many groundbreaking business books, including the Wiley title Radical Marketing, The CEO Chronicles, and The Ultimate Entrepreneur.
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From Publisher
In an era in which headlines decry the dishonesty of some corporate leaders, we tend to overlook more inspiring business stories. This is one of those stories.
While some energy companies were playing fast and loose with the new rules of deregulation - cooking the books to inflate the price of their stock - KeySpan maintained the sort of good corporate citizenship that many people thought impossible. And while other energy businesses imploded in a wave of misguided management and dishonest accounting, KeySpan’s leadership was characterized by its steadfast belief in doing the right thing and embracing the very best that its employees and the communities it served had to offer.
The CEO and the Monk describes the unlikely partnership of a savvy CEO and a former monk who led their company to the top even while embracing a higher set of business standards. It examines KeySpan’s success from the perspective of Robert Catell and Kenny Moore, who have formed an unusual but potent relationship that has enabled the company’s rise from a small local utility monopoly to one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing energy providers. It has done so by adopting the values of the community it serves and espousing a management philosophy that brought caring and a sense of soul into the workplace. The results not only improved the bottom line, but forged a corporate culture with meaning.
Unlike other business books that claim to offer lessons in ethical leadership, The CEO and the Monk goes beyond the theoretical into the real world, where commerce and spirituality rarely intersect. This is a true account of a real business, with real business leaders and tough issues to overcome. Faced with deregulation, traumatic mergers, a slowing economy, the terror of 9/11, and a shifting business landscape, Catell and Moore infused KeySpan with a sense of values - without ever losing sight of the bottom line. Theirs is a story that will resonate with corporate leaders who want to lead as well as inspire their organizations.
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Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2008-10-20 00:00>
The sublime union of temporal and spiritual power in the business world is celebrated in this earnest corporate hagiography. The titular monk is ex-Catholic clergyman Moore, a "thoughtful, provocative, gentle and good-natured" man with "the interpersonal skills of a priest, the serenity of a monk, the unbiased attitude of a business neophyte and a stark absence of a personal agenda." Signing on to the human resources department of gas utility Brooklyn Union, Moore becomes a confessor to troubled colleagues and a spiritual advisor to CEO Catell. As the energy market deregulates and Brooklyn Union metastasizes into energy conglomerate KeySpan through a series of traumatic mergers and acquisitions, Moore helps the company "hold on to its soul" through a regimen of high-concept human resources initiatives in which employees meditate, create murals, do improv comedy and vent their feelings, initiatives that are also supplemented by random acts of senseless beauty, like sending anonymous floral bouquets to unsung workers. Nominally the company ombudsman, Moore displays a combination of sacramental and community-building roles that makes him more like an archbishop; he likens one of his HR functions to a Catholic Mass, another to the Last Supper, and even presides, decked out in priestly vestments, over a "funeral" for Brooklyn Union. Employees roll their eyes at first, but Moore is stoutly supported by Catell, a "messianic CEO" whose "salvific task" Moore compares to that of Moses himself. In the book’s trinitarian chapter structure, business journalist Rifkin (Radical Marketing) offers third-person narrative sections praising the character and good works of the two KeySpan executives, followed by first-person sections in which Moore and Catell praise each other (and themselves.) The result is a fairly well-written devotional tract that will inspire far more than it enlightens. |
HR.Com Book of the Year 2003, Runner-Up, January, 2004, USA
<2008-10-20 00:00>
Entertaining and human story of making a business work by keeping an eye on the intangibles of the human experience.
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Boston Globe (MSL quote), USA
<2008-10-20 00:00>
If you're interested in CEO thinking, human resources issues, and corporate culture, ''The CEO and the Monk" is worth reading. |
Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, USA
<2008-10-20 00:00>
It's an odd partnership that makes for an offbeat but intriguing story. |
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